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...interaction of individual light photons facilitates computation and is the basis for the notion of quantum computers...
...past two years, Harvard’s once-in-a-generation curricular review held the promise of a complete and visionary overhaul of undergraduate education at the University. 59 years ago, the same process introduced the very notion of a core curriculum to American academia. And the last time University dons gathered to rethink Harvard’s pedagogical orientation—in the 1970s—the College adopted its commitment to teaching “approaches to knowledge” in the Core and beyond. But the recently released Harvard College Curricular Review (HCCR) report, which contains initial...
...College. Also, in all but 11 of the concentrations, Honors and Basic requirements would be condensed into one set, making the only thing that distinguishes an Honors degree from a non-Honors degree a thesis or a “capstone project.” The quaint notion of the “capstone project”—a vaguely-defined senior-year endeavor that does not have to involve original and intensive academic research or writing—deserves scorn, too, for providing seniors with what would likely become an easy way out of doing real work...
Cavell traces the notion of perfectionism, which first emerged in Socrates’ “just city,” though the work of the great philosophers from Plato and Aristotle to Nietzsche and John Rawls, and through the literature of such writers as Shakespeare...
...task force got very excited about the idea,” Hyman said. “Undergraduates kind of give life to everything, and people saw the mutual benefit and the notion of students being closer to each other along the river and being potentially closer to new educational facilities...